ALLEN PARK — Titus Young was sent home by Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz on Monday.

The wide receiver won’t be active for Thursday’s game against the Houston Texans due to his behavior in Sunday’s loss to the Packers and in recent weeks.

“When you play a game like football, it’s a team sport,’’ Schwartz said. “Players have obligations to the team, Titus hasn’t done a very good job of fulfilling those obligations this week and recently.’’

“Not at this point, but how we go in the future is going to depend on Titus and his behavior,’’ Schwartz said.

The ball is in Young’s court, so to speak.

“How it goes in the future is going to depend on his reaction. It’s disappointing because this is ground we’ve already covered, I thought we would be past this but we haven’t been,’’ Schwartz said. “His behavior on Sunday was unacceptable and it hurt the team particularly on offense, it was a distraction and we’re going to eliminate that distraction particularly this week.’’

Schwartz would not get into particulars. Although he confirmed that when right tackle Gosder Cherilus was penalized for being offsides, it was because of confusion lining up with Young.

“I never like to get 100 percent into things but that was one of the issues. Titus was lined up in the wrong spot in that case and it caused a lot of confusion on offense. I don’t like to excuse any behavior from any player, with Gosder he was sitting in the block way too long. It was because of this situation.’’

Apparently Young needed yet another reminder that football is a team sport.

“When you play a team sport you put the team before yourself, there’s no room for selfish behavior, there’s no room for doing anything other than your job,’’ Schwartz said. “When you’re a player it’s your job to make the team happy, it’s not the team’s job to make you happy.’’

In May, Young was banned from the practice facility after allegedly sucker-punching safety Louis Delmas at the first organized team activity.

“I don’t know if I’d classify it (as strike two). His behavior is going to have to change, it’s a team sport not an individual sport,’’ Schwartz said. “Eventually there’s no more opportunities to get it right.’’

Young had his best game against Seattle on Oct. 28 when he was targeted nine times and caught all nine balls for 100 yards and two touchdowns.

In the three games since then, he has been targeted 18 times and caught seven balls for 79 yards and a touchdown.

In Sunday’s loss to the Packers, he was targeted six times and had one catch for 24 yards.

The offense looked out of sync and obviously Young was a part of that. Young and Matthew Stafford haven’t been on the same page much of the season.

“I think early on he didn’t get a whole lot of practice time, he’s battling that knee really all season and it’s tough when you don’t get a whole lot of practice time with a guy to go out and make some plays,’’ Stafford said. “Then for whatever reason, little things here — maybe I don’t throw a good enough pass and or we don’t make a catch, whatever it is. We haven’t been able to connect as consistently as we want to, obviously he had a good game against Seattle.’’

Broyles was targeted nine times in the last three games and caught all nine for 93 yards.

“Every time I throw him the ball he makes a play,’’ Stafford said. “Maybe I should throw it to him some more, I’m sure he’d like that.’’

Broyles, a second-round draft pick in April, is about a year off ACL surgery and continues to improve physically.

“Going back to preseason whenever he’s been given the opportunity he’s made plays,’’ Schwartz said. “With the situation with Titus he’s one of the guys that has the potential to be able to benefit from that, so will Mike Thomas who we just traded for recently and so will Brian Robiskie.’’

Young could also have had something to do with the sideline confrontation between offensive coordinator Scott Linehan and wide receivers coach Shawn Jefferson.

“I’ve been in the NFL for a long time, very rarely a game that goes by that something is not said usually over the headset that somebody takes offense to or interprets the wrong way,’’ Schwartz said. “But usually it’s done quickly. In this case it was done very publicly. That’s regrettable. Also, it was the frustration of the game situation.

“... The funny thing — funny is not a good word because there’s nothing funny about it — they were both on the same side of the argument, but in the heat of the moment they ended up missing that fact,’’ Schwartz said.